README FILE for "Sales, Quantity Surcharge, and Consumer Inattention" by Sofronis Clerides and Pascal Courty
Review of Economics and Statistics

Please direct any queries to Sofronis Clerides (s.clerides@ucy.ac.cy).

DATA

The paper ustilizes two sources of proprietary data. The Dutch data are from Nielsen and the U.S. data from IRI. The Nielsen data were obtained after a specific request to the company. Interested parties should contact the company directly (www.nielsen.com). The IRI data are made available by the company to the research community upon request. Instructions are available in Bronnenberg, Kruger, and Mela, 2009, "The IRI Marketing Data Set," Marketing Science, 27, 745-748. 

FILES

Nielsen data
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Data.do		Code to combine data from different source files into one dataset for analysis 
Analysis.do	Code that produces tables and estimates in paper 

Data.do file must be run first. 

IRI data
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Blades_data	Reads and processes all datasets
prod_blades	Called from Blades_data
Blades_reg	Runs regressions

Deter_data	Reads and processes all datasets
prod_laundet	Called from Deter_data
Deter_reg	Runs regressions

Diap_data	Reads and processes all datasets
prod_diapers	Called from Diap_data
Diap_reg	Runs regressions

Shampoo_data	Reads and processes all datasets
prod_shampoo	Called from Shampoo_data
Shampoo_reg	Runs regressions

*_data files must be run first. 